Alice Programming Tutorial, by Richard G Baldwin

Learn to Program using Alice

Slide Index for the Lesson Titled

Setting the Stage Manually, Part 1

Published: April 29, 2007
By Richard G. Baldwin
Instructions for viewing slides

File: Alice0115SlideIndex.htm

Figures

Figure 1. Alice environment in scene edit mode.
Figure 2. The Alice welcome screen.
Figure 3. Dialog describing the Coach object.
Figure 4. Exposing the different parts of a Coach object.
Figure 5. Result of dragging the mad scientist into the world.
Figure 6. View showing some of the manual camera controls.
Figure 7. Camera rolled ninety degrees (one-fourth revolution).
Figure 8. A view of the coach from behind.
Figure 9. Controls for manipulating the object and the camera.
Figure 10. The quad view.
Figure 11. Coach demonstrating how to kick a football.

Slides

Alice0115aa Purpose of the lesson
Alice0115ab Three scenarios
Alice0115ac Two approaches
Alice0115ad Writing a program
Alice0115ae Camera controls and object manipulation buttons
Alice0115af Basic purpose
Alice0115ag Scenario 1, treat the actors like smart manikins or automatons
Alice0115ah Scenario 1 (cont'd)
Alice0115ai Scenario 2, treat the actors like smarter automatons
Alice0115aj Scenario 3, treat the actors like humans
Alice0115ak How does this relate to Alice?
Alice0115al What about the first two scenarios?
Alice0115am Modeling scenario 1
Alice0115an Modeling scenario 2
Alice0115ao Neither right nor wrong
Alice0115ap Will emphasize the first scenario
Alice0115aq The Alice development environment
Alice0115ar Sections of the Alice scene edit mode
Alice0115as The menus and the button bar
Alice0115at A bounding box
Alice0115au The object tree
Alice0115av The details section
Alice0115aw The gallery
Alice0115ax A coach in a desert
Alice0115ay The world section
Alice0115az The camera controls
Alice0115ba The other camera control
Alice0115bb The object manipulator buttons
Alice0115bc The object manipulator buttons (cont'd)

A demonstration begins here. Would be useful to conduct in the lab so the students can follow along.

Alice0115bd Starting from scratch
Alice0115be Start the Alice program running
Alice0115bf Select a pre-designed background
Alice0115bg Save your world
Alice0115bh Add an object from the gallery
Alice0115bi The Coach dialog
Alice0115bj The Coach dialog (cont'd)
Alice0115bk Keep him or toss him
Alice0115bl Manipulating the object tree
Alice0115bm Exposing body parts
Alice0115bn Dragging boundaries in the development screen
Alice0115bo Collapse the object tree
Alice0115bp A shortcut for adding objects
Alice0115bq A shortcut for adding objects (cont'd)
Alice0115br Delete the mad scientist
Alice0115bs Using the camera controls
Alice0115bt Change position and orientation of the camera
Alice0115bu Translation of the camera
Alice0115bv Changing the orientation of the camera
Alice0115bw Clicking versus dragging
Alice0115bx Rolling the camera
Alice0115by The Undo button
Alice0115bz It's time to experiment
Alice0115ca Getting back to where you started
Alice0115cb More controls
Alice0115cc Get a quad view
Alice0115cd Two additional buttons
Alice0115ce Two additional buttons (cont'd)
Alice0115cf The button with the magnifying glass
Alice0115cg Change the lens angle
Alice0115ch Manipulating objects
Alice0115ci The object manipulator buttons
Alice0115cj The checkbox labeled affect subparts
Alice0115ck Six faces and an arrow
Alice0115cl Changing the size of the object
Alice0115cm Make copies of the object
Alice0115cn Lab project
Alice0115co What's next?

Instructions

The above material corresponds to a particular tutorial lesson and consists of up to three separate lists: figures, program listings, and slides. . The figures and listings are provided mainly to support the slides, but they may be viewed separately if desired.

The slides are intended primarily for use by instructors during classroom lectures, but they are also useful as a quick review mechanism for students who have studied the corresponding tutorial lesson and who have mastered the corresponding practice test.

Each slide consists of HTML files and JPEG files. Therefore, you should not need any software other than the browser in which you are viewing this page to view the slides and to display them during your lectures. A very effective approach is to open this index page in one tab of a tabbed browser and to successively open each slide in another tab to display it for viewing by the class.

The slides are designed so that you should be able to display two slides side-by-side on a display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels in two separate browser windows. This is useful for displaying the slide on one-half of the screen while displaying a figure or listing on the other half of the screen.

Copyright 2007, Richard G. Baldwin. Faculty and staff of public and private non-profit educational institutions are granted a license to reproduce and to use this material for purposes consistent with the teaching process. This license does not extend to commercial ventures. Otherwise, reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission from Richard Baldwin is prohibited.

About the author

Richard Baldwin is a college professor (at Austin Community College in Austin, TX) and private consultant whose primary focus is a combination of Java, C#, and XML. In addition to the many platform and/or language independent benefits of Java and C# applications, he believes that a combination of Java, C#, and XML will become the primary driving force in the delivery of structured information on the Web.

Richard has participated in numerous consulting projects and he frequently provides onsite training at the high-tech companies located in and around Austin, Texas. He is the author of Baldwin's Programming Tutorials, which have gained a worldwide following among experienced and aspiring programmers. He has also published articles in JavaPro magazine.

In addition to his programming expertise, Richard has many years of practical experience in Digital Signal Processing (DSP). His first job after he earned his Bachelor's degree was doing DSP in the Seismic Research Department of Texas Instruments. (TI is still a world leader in DSP.) In the following years, he applied his programming and DSP expertise to other interesting areas including sonar and underwater acoustics.

Richard holds an MSEE degree from Southern Methodist University and has many years of experience in the application of computer technology to real-world problems.

Baldwin@DickBaldwin.com

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